Firefighters have contained a chemical spill at a paper mill in Kawerau.
Eight fire appliances from Kawerau, Edgecumbe and Greerton in Tauranga were called to the Norske Skog paper mill at about 6.45pm after black liquor - a by-product of converting pulpwood into paper pulp - escaped from a valve.
Firefighters contain spill in Kawerau
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